Last Revised: October 11, 2023
The J. Reuben Clark Law Society (“we” or “us”) operates this website (the “Website”) in close association with the BYU Law School. If you have questions, comments, or concerns about our Privacy Policy (this “Policy” or “Privacy Policy”), you may email: support@jrcls.org
We affirm the strength brought to the law by a lawyer’s personal religious conviction. We strive through public service and professional excellence to promote fairness and virtue founded upon the rule of law.
We value transparency. The primary purpose of our Policy is to describe how and when we may collect, store, use, share, and protect your information.
We strive to understand and abide by all applicable privacy laws in how we collect, store, use, share, and protect your information. If any part of our Policy is unlawful, it is inadvertent and void.
Information You Provide Us Directly – As you use the Website, there are numerous contexts in which you may freely give us your personal information. For example, you may give us your name, email address, mailing address, phone number, job information, username and password, and payment card information.
Information Automatically Collected – We may track and store any information about your use of the Website, including but not limited to your location, browser type, referring URL, computer’s operating system, Internet Service Provider, IP host address, domain name, time and date of visit, pages viewed, links clicked, and time spent on each element. We may use cookies to track your user preferences, username, password, or other details to streamline your experience. We may also use web beacons to track your use of the Website and interaction with the emails we send you. For example, web beacons may let us know whether you received or opened an email. You may be able to disable some web beacons by displaying emails as text only and adjusting browser settings.
We may also use third party analytics tools, such as Google Analytics, Google conversion tracking, and Facebook Pixel. In these cases, our third-party service providers may use cookies for our analytics purposes.
Outside Information – We may receive information about you from third parties or public databases.
Children – If you are under the age of 13, we won’t knowingly collect any information about you and you may not use the Website. If you believe we might have any personal information from or about a child under the age of 13, please contact us at: support@jrcls.org
Do Not Track Signals – Most web browsers and some mobile operating systems and mobile applications include a Do-Not-Track feature or setting you can activate to signal your privacy preference not to have data about your online browsing activities monitored and collected. At this time, the Website does not respond to the preferences you may have set in your web browser regarding such collection of your information, and the Website may continue to collect information in the manner described in this Privacy Policy.
Legal Basis for Collection and Processing – We collect and process personal information on the following legal bases.
Storage in United States – Even if you access the Website from a foreign country, we store your information in the United States in accordance with its laws. Subject to your rights set forth below, by using the Website, you consent to the transfer of your information to and storage of your information in the United States.
Security Measures But No Warranty – We implement a variety of reasonable security measures to maintain the safety of your personal information. Your personal information is stored in secured networks that are only accessible to individuals with special access rights. In addition, all sensitive information, like credit card information, will usually be encrypted via Secure Socket Layer/Transport Layer Security technology. That said, security can never be guaranteed. We don’t warrant the security of any information that we collect.
Data Retention – We will only keep your personal information for as long as it is necessary for the purposes set out in this privacy policy, unless a longer retention period is required or permitted by law (such as tax, accounting or other legal requirements).
Handling Breaches – If we learn of a security breach with respect to your personally identifiable information, our first priority will be to determine the scope of the damage, notify and work with law enforcement, and engage in remedial measures, as appropriate. We’ll also notify you via email as soon as reasonably possible.
Payment Processing – We may collect and store information created by your purchases, including payment method information, merchant’s name, and the date, time, and amount of the transaction. To streamline future purchases, we may store your credit or debit card number, card expiration date, and billing and shipping addresses.
Experience Enhancement – We may use the personal information we collect to provide you services and enhance your user experience. For example, we may use your location to provide local trends, stories, or ads. We may use the information we collect to make inferences about you, like what topics you may be interested in, what teams you may like, etc., to customize content, including ads.
Marketing Purposes – We use the information we collect to inform you about opportunities we believe you may be interested in. You may unsubscribe from any notification by following the instructions contained within the notification or emailing us at externalrelations@law.byu.edu with your request.
Protection – We may access, process, and retain for an extended period of time any information collected about you when it is the subject of a legal request or obligation, governmental investigation, or investigations concerning possible violations of our terms or policies, or otherwise to prevent harm. We may retain information from accounts disabled for violations of our terms for at least one year to prevent repeat abuse or other violations.
Information for Specific Third Parties – We may disclose aggregated or deidentified information about our Website users and members without restriction. We may share your personal information in the following situations:
Right to Access your Personal Information. You have the right to access the personal information we hold about you. At your request, we will provide you with a copy of the personal information that we have about you.
Right to Amend/Correct. If you discover that the personal information we hold about you is incorrect or out of date, you may ask us to correct that personal information.
Right to be Forgotten. You may ask us to delete the personal information we hold about you in certain circumstances. It may not be possible for us to delete all of the information we hold about you where we have an ongoing relationship, however please contact us and we will do our best to assist with your request.
Right to Revoke Consent. Where we process your data on the basis that you have consented to such processing, you have the right to withdraw your consent at any time by contacting us.
Right to Unsubscribe. If you have received a promotional email from us, you can also opt out of receiving future promotional emails from us by following the unsubscribe instructions contained in such email.
The Website may contain links to other sites for your convenience. We have no responsibility for the content or privacy practices of any third-party site, and we encourage you to review their privacy policies if you have any questions about how they process personal information.
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time in order to reflect, for example, changes to our practices or for other operational, legal or regulatory reasons. If we make a material change to our Privacy Policy, we will provide notice to you (by email or posting on the Website) that our privacy practices have changed and will provide a link to the new policy. In the event we make a material change to how we process your personal information, we will provide you with an opportunity to opt out of such new or different use. The date this Privacy Policy was last revised is at the top of this page. We encourage you to review this Privacy Policy periodically to check for any updates or changes.
If you have concerns or claims with respect to how we handle your information, please let us know. We’ll investigate and attempt to promptly resolve any complaints.
For more information about our privacy practices, if you have questions, or if you would like to make a complaint, please contact us by e‑mail at support@jrcls.org or by mail using the details provided below:
Reuben Clark Law Society
340 JRCB
Provo, UT 84602
Attn: Law Society
You also have the right to lodge a complaint directly with your local supervisory authority or data protection authority.
